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Kong Rithdee is a Bangkok Post columnist. He has written about films for 18 years with the Bangkok Post and other publications, and is one of the most prominent writers on cinema in the...
Jan 27, 2018 · Kong Rithdee is a Bangkok Post columnist. He has written about films for 18 years with the Bangkok Post and other publications, and is one of the most prominent writers on cinema in the...
- Kong Rithdee
- Monrak Transistor
- Butterfly and Flowers
- Tears of The Black Tiger
- The Siam Renaissance
- Black Silk
Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s adaptation of Wat Walayangkul’s novel is a modern classic in the canon of Thai cinema, a near-perfect marriage between contemporary filmmaking sensibilities and the familiar social-realist trope in which brutal Bangkok crushes the dream and innocence of a rural boy. The country songs in the soundtrack are top, too. Watch Monrak...
Euthana Mukdasani’s film contains one of the most memorable scenes in the history of Thai cinema: the border-crossing rice smugglers on the roof of a moving train as it trundles into sunset. The film is a coming-of-age drama about a Muslim boy in Songkhla and his wide-eyed struggle to find his place in the world. They don’t make a Thai film like th...
Wisit Sasanatieng’s bold, wacky pastiche of old Siamese films is a one-of-a-kind wonder: a mashup, an homage, an expensive experiment, and a wild celebration of beautiful clichés and tragicomic predictability that once made Thai films so irresistible. The Black Tiger of the title is a heartbroken cowboy/bandit in love with a beautiful heiress engag...
Surapong Pinijka’s adaptation of Tommayanti’s popular time-travel novel becomes an eccentric, courageous, almost radical specimen of mid-2000s Thai cinema. A magical mirror whizzes a modern-day female diplomat back to King Rama IV’s reign, where Western powers are eyeing Siam with colonial lust. At one point, warped timeline lands the Eiffel Tower ...
R.D. Pestonji’s crime caper from 1961 is said to be the first Thai film noir – with a strong Buddhist twist. A black-clad widow falls in love with a nightclub henchman and is sucked into a web of murder and identity theft. The film was the first Thai selection to Berlin International Film Festival, and the restored version (on Netflix) was also pic...
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Apr 7, 2020 · We spoke to Thailand’s leading film critic Kong Rithdee, who shares his top five Thai film recommendations to watch during self-isolation.
Jun 24, 2017 · Kong Rithdee is a Bangkok Post columnist. He has written about films for 18 years with the Bangkok Post and other publications, and is one of the most prominent writers on cinema in the...
- Kong Rithdee
Kong RITHDEE is the deputy director of the Thai Film Archive and a film critic who has written for publications including Bangkok Post. Together with Panu AREE he has developed multiple cinematic works, such as Baby Arabia (2010) and GADDAFI (2014), discussing Muslim identity in Thailand.
Kong Rithdee is currently the deputy director of the Thai Film Archives. From 1996 to 2018, he was a journalist at the Bangkok Post covering film, art, culture, and politics. He still writes film columns in English and Thai, while also translating articles, screenplays, and books.
